C. Suresh

LATEST ARTICLES ( 832 )

• Satire in India

  How can someone be funny and serious at the same time? It is like asking me to see a respected guru in a capering clown. But, then, that is exactly what a... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Being Single

  "Marriage – A process of finding out what sort of person your spouse would have preferred to marry” It is not merely because I disliked learning that I stayed... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• An Offer You Cannot Refuse?

  I know that the very moment you hear that 'An offer you cannot refuse', especially from me, you are all afire to say, "Oh yeah? Watch me do it" (Not being Don... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Posts Galore

  I have practically been typing one blog post with my left hand and one with my right. When people offer to help spread the word of your book, you find your... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Eventually - I Write

  Writing is a passion that one develops when one starts reading, especially at a young age. There is something about being able to transport others into... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Resolved

  All right! So New Year 2016 has kicked out the old year and occupied its place in our dates. Whenever this coup happens, as it happens every year, we humans... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2016 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Christmas Whimsy

  The last bell jingled and he climbed off wearily wiping the sweat from his brow (in the North Pole!). He had no breath left even for one 'HoHoHo! Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Obsessive

  "You know this odd-and-even rule that is getting applied in Delhi..." "That 'odd' reminds me. You know the odd thing is that even though I have a book... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Learning Social Media Lingo

  "You know that smiley - the colon-bracket one.." "Yes!" I said proudly. "I have mastered its use." "Actually, you know, it is not meant to be used as a period.... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Flooded out

  After a hectic meeting on deciding what the Nation ought to know and who were to be on the panel so that they could be shushed by the host, it was time for... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Much Ado About Intolerance

  Call me stupid, if you will (WHAT? You do not need an invitation? You would do it anyway?), but I really did not understand what this brouhaha about... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• My 400th Post: Thank You

  This is my 400th blog post. The trouble is to get people, who know me in person, to believe that I have written 400 posts. "You mean you really know how to... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Inimitable Oscar Wilde

  The moment I think of Oscar Wilde I think of that scene in "The importance of being Ernest" where the prospective son-in-law tells the girl's mother that he... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Tolerance

  There are those days when you sit at the laptop and find nothing funny to say (Not all the time, thank you.) Then you see a friend's status about tolerance and... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Of a Book and Reviews

  Every time I put up words anywhere I, of course, assume that what I am writing is deathless prose. Since I also presume that I am a humorist, I also assume... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fantasy

  You sit in office, laboring for 16 hours a day for the third straight day, and finish the Annual Budget in less time than it has ever been done before. Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Perils of a Modern Writer

  You possibly think that these classical writers of the past were real geniuses. They had it easy, I tell you. All they had to do was to concentrate on their... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mirror! Mirror! On the Wall!

  I had a endless fascination for mirrors in my teens. I knew I had a heartbreaking handsome face but, of course, it helps if you can see it for yourself and... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Importance of Bollywood Songs

  It is such a pity that I learn most of the important lessons of life too late. Story of my life, in general. There is no real point in me, at age fifty or so,... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Humor Book - A Dog Eat Dog-food World

  

  Once upon a time, I was content writing blog posts and waiting forlornly for readers to come around and read them. Then comes a short story competition and I,... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION